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Date: 1786
"Remember (continued he) that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad: the mind stagnates for want of employment, grows morbid, and is extinguished like a candle in foul air."
preview | full record— Piozzi, [née Salusbury; other married name Thrale] Hester Lynch (1741-1821)